BUCKET EXHIBITIONS: BUCKET EXHIBITIONS at PRINTERS PLANET 2024

BUCKET EXHIBITIONS Tent

Ellie Weadock and Karl Whitaker printed live in the BUCKET EXHIBITIONS tent, and gave out free prints of two varieties -- individual Tessellation prints and AI prints from the Tortilla Press:

TORTILLA PRINTS

Jesse Wood and son

making a Tortilla Press Print

TESSELLATION PRINTS

Ellie and Stewart Weadock

making individual Tessellation prints

Setting up

under the tent that Ellie brought

The Tent Set-up

Tortilla Press Printing (white table)

Tessellation Linocuts Printing (black table)

One of our first visitors

was Lisette Chavez of

ShowMeYourPrint Shop

Tim Jag, the organizer of the PRINTERS PLANET,

came by to make a print

Matthew Chase-Daniel (left)

of Axle Contemporary stopped by

TORTILLA PRESS

The white table was for making round "street taco-sized" prints on the Tortilla Press. The 4 inch round linocut discs were of animal images generated by AI (Artificial Intelligence) with Midjourney:

The Tortilla Press white table

The selection of framed round linocuts to choose from

(all made with Midjourney AI)

YAY!

One of the AI print images

animated with more AI (with Haiper)

We collaborated with the OffCenter Arts table. They had hand-carved a bunch of small erasers. So after we printed an AI porcupine on the Tortilla Press, they put a silk screening squeegee in the porcupine's hands, ink with a stamp pad:

Print collaboration

between BUCKET EXHIBITIONS and OffCenter Arts

Jim Coogan and his grandson

made a Tortilla Print

Individual TESSELLATION Prints

The "hat" shaped tessellation linocuts made great individual prints, even though they were conceived to make larger collaboration prints:

John Tollett brought his carved tessellation linocut

and we printed it immediately

We printed the tessellation linocuts

on the Sizzix Big Shot embossing press

on 8x8 inch paper

Inking up John Tollett's first tessellation tile

John Tollett also carved a "hat" tessellation tile

with a shirt image

John Tollett's shirt "hat" tessellation tile

Arlene also brought a tessellation tile

which we printed

Arlene's printed tessellation tile

David Brower and Virgil Velasco's

tessellation prints

*****

We used a tube of

Speedball Professional SuperGraphic Black ink

Print collaboration --

Karl Whitaker drew the image on the linoleum tile

and Virgil Velasco carved the linoleum

PRINT COLLABORATION

We made a collaborative print with OffCenter Arts. They hand-carved erasers and inked them up with stamp pads:

Inking carved erasers

Adding an eraser stamp/print

to the AI porcupine print

PRINTS and AR

The javelina print concealed a thin credit-card-sized NFC card inside the frame -- such that when one taps the print with their smart phone, an AR Alien Javelina shows up. Go to the link under the 3D Alien Javelina on your smart phone, and then place that "Augmented Reality" (AR) Alien Javelina in the real world:

The thin NFC card

fits behind the javelina print

in the 4x4 inch frame,

to conjure an Alien Javelina in the real world

Then take a screen grab photo of the AR Alien Javelina in the real world:

WebAR

Stewart pets the WebAR alien javelina

in the real world

The LEAF Print

Ellie printed a leaf for a little girl (although there are no photos of it).

Ellie offered to print any of the linocuts, but the little girl refused a print -- even after her grandparents encouraged her to select a one. The prints were free after all.

Then a leaf fell on the printmaking table, and the little girl said that she wanted a print of that. So Ellie inked up the leaf and ran it through the press. The little girl left, pleased with her new leaf print.

That's what makes the print demos exciting and worthwhile.

*****

SUMMARY -- PRINTERS PLANET 2024 in Santa Fe